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About David Gilbert

David Gilbert is serving three consecutive terms of twenty-five years to life for his participation in a 1981 politically motivated offence. He will be eligible for parole in 2056, at the age of 112. He is the author of No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner(Abraham Guillen, 2004), and a memoir, Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond (PM, 2011). Gilbert has been a reader of Monthly Review for fifty years.
  • In prison, today’s pandemic and shades of yesterday’s: What the fight against COVID can learn from the one against AIDS

    In prison, today’s pandemic and shades of yesterday’s: What the fight against COVID can learn from the one against AIDS

    Originally published: New York Daily News (more by New York Daily News)  |

    The infamous Tuskegee syphilis study on Black men is but the best known of the plethora of medical experiments on Black and Brown people in and out of prisons, and other vulnerable populations.

  • Letters of Life from Slow Death Row

    Letters of life from slow death row

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 18, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Tiyo Attallah Salah-El’s exemplary life (without parole) is testament to the human spirit and the cause of abolition.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Out of the Shadows: Public Banking for Municipal Finance
    David Gilbert

    In a recent essay, we advanced a proposal for sub-federal governments to sell municipal bonds to their own public banks. We took the city as our primary point of departure, but the same lessons are applicable to U.S. counties and states. Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt, we argued, would not only significantly […]

  • Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks
    David Gilbert

    What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and federal levels who refuse to push back? Right now, we see austerity budgets appearing across every institution and major employer in the U.S. If the federal government continues to sabotage municipalities, […]

  • Defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau w/ Tyler Creighton
    David Gilbert

    In this episode, we speak with Tyler Creighton about the ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought in the second Trump Administration. Creighton is a lawyer at the CFPB and a member of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), Chapter 335.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogol's play The Government Inspector, showing audience members in the foreground, and actors on stage in the background.

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited
    James Petras

    The sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]

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